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Chris Stein

Chris Stein is a staff writer at The Inlander. He covers social services, downtown Spokane, Eastern Washington and Spokane city hall. His work has been published by the Associated Press, VeloNews and the Santa Barbara Independent. He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Francisco Velazquez insists on symmetry. Even sitting at a huge table flanked by leather-backed chairs and a jumble of expensive video equipment, he makes sure his Blackberry and iPhone (the former for business, the latter for pleasure) are situated in neat symmetry with each other.

For veterans, the war continues long after they’ve left the battlefield

By Chris Stein

As his loved ones dashed to their cars and the police fielded 911 calls about a despondent man at a cemetery, Ed Pace sat on a bluff overlooking the Spokane River, an iPhone and a Smith &Wesson .44-caliber pistol in his hands.

Whether he’s defending a fired cop or the former director of the MAC, Spokane attorney Bob Dunn is on a roll

By Chris Stein

embarrassed city leaders and enraged the public. Just last week, he was the man behind the scenes whose threaten of a lawsuit helped Forrest Rodgers, the fired director of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, get his job back..

The Ridpath Hotel may have a few new interested parties: The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. One local businessman confirmed that he had been approached by both agencies and questioned about GREG JEFFREYS, the controversial owner of several pieces of the hotel.

Are Spokane police’s emphasis patrols fighting crime, or just moving it around?

By Chris Stein

Green normally patrols a wide swath of southeast Spokane, but every shift, he takes an extra 15 minutes to patrol nine blocks surrounding the shelter. The area ranks among the highest in the city when it comes to calls about fights, robberies and other misdeeds, according to police data.

What’s going to happen when the state Supreme Court tells public defenders how many cases they should be taking?

By Chris Stein

It’s halfway through the year. If she continues on this rate, McPeek, who says she has a caseload typical of misdemeanor defenders in the county public defender’s office, may eventually exceed new state Supreme Court limits on the number of cases a public defender may take in a year.

Spokane’s Marshallese are losing state funds that helped put food on the table

By Chris Stein

In a room half-full of people, Linda Stone held up a piece of paper and circled two numbers to illustrate the bad news. The paper was a letter from the state, one that some of Spokane’s Marshallese had already received. It told them that, starting in July, the state Food Assistance Program benefits would be cut in half.

On the road to find the source of local earthquakes

By Chris Stein

Once those lines are mapped and lined up, Cothburn, and his colleagues from the U.S. Geological Survey will be able to see a two-dimensional image of the ground that, they hope, will tell them what caused a spate of earthquakes in Spokane over a decade ago.